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Mira Akbar
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🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
February 4, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent.

Opportunities are everywhere.

Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉
January 30, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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As reactionary pundits rush to blame Harris’ loss on those fighting for trans rights, here’s a reminder that centrist Dems blamed Gavin Newsom’s vocal support of gay marriage for John Kerry’s loss in 2004

Nothing new under the sun
November 10, 2024 at 10:58 PM
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December 29, 2024 at 12:50 AM
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Joy is resistance.
December 2, 2024 at 6:04 PM
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Earnest post, but: a thing I like here is it’s okay to have moments of happiness in public without being broadly scolded, and I believe that sustaining this kind of humanity will be very important as we resist fascism.

We have to sustain each other. Making joy isn’t denial, it’s how we will survive
November 12, 2024 at 1:22 AM